Lyra_Lycan
@Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
She/Her - Was bullied off reddit by mean moderators, but it’s a corporation anyway - 🏳️⚧️omni, heart - Pro kindness|gressiveness, Anti cruelty|bullshit.
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 6 days ago:
Oh yeah. One of my probably unprovable theories is that the data they collected on me will always be floating around, I can just do my best to stop new data being harvested and, potentially, old data might be unsellable. Like when Daniel Radcliffe didn’t update his outfit for several months and paparazzi couldn’t sell the photos they took of him to magazines because they all looked outdated and therefore inaccurate
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 6 days ago:
I used to be the same, but I eventually got sick of seeing these constant requests to spend my money on whoever’s product. If I see a problem that can be solved with a product, I know tlwhere to find stores, and I’ll go look for it. I don’t need 45,000 attempts at my money in case one is what I need. So I block all ads, pointedly avoid sponsored results, and use my own brain to decide what I want, when I want it.
Plus it improves my experience on all services when the UI isn’t wasted on banners and games don’t play a video every thirty seconds.
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 6 days ago:
This. I thoroughly checked all of my account’s settings and toggled off about 15 switches related to history or data access. Not only that, Google can occasionally add new ones or toggle them back on, either through deceptive user prompts or underhanded updates.
- Comment on Looking for a Self-Hosted Music Server with Discovery & Recommendation Features 1 week ago:
I highly recommend a Navidrome/Slskd/beets[lyrics]/Symfonium setup!
I have a Navidrome server that serves music in a Library Folder (B), a Slskd server that serves a Soulseek web UI and downloads to a Download Folder (A), and beetbox beets program with the lyrics plugin installed via pipx that has config parameters set so that I can manually run it, it’ll detect and allow me to identify songs downloaded to Folder A, inject synced lyrics, and move them to an organised folder structure in Folder B.
- Navidrome doesn’t need organisation, I just do it to be neat.
- beets uses MusicBrainz and another I believe for song/album ID, and lrclib for synced lyrics
- I also have Lidarr set up to download from Soulseek with the Tubifarry plugin, get lyrics via lrclib and move to Folder B with the same structure as beets, but its metadata is heavily lacking and many images and artist song data is just nonexistent after about two months of “populating” (see below)
- You can use any Subsonic client but I find Symfonium to be incredible. Paying these devs is worth it!
- Comment on Took you a while... 1 week ago:
What’s stopping me is it still feels like a generic resale or untrustworthy website… I see that it isn’t, though… And it’ll take a lot of money to buy DRM free copies of 600 games. My plan is to move the Steam game files and uninstall Steam, to test if Heroic can launch them. Whatever fails can be rebought, or counted as an acceptable loss
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 2 weeks ago:
You can follow uploaders, but since the mass removal of 80% of their videos I doubt the website has ever gotten better. I had a few favourites noted down but none of them exist now.
- Comment on Person of the Century 1 month ago:
- Comment on A comprehensive absolut beginner's guide 1 month ago:
I know Jellyfin/Emby is compatible with musuc, but I’m advising you now to not try and cram all your media in one software. I recommend Navidrome as a music hoster. The con is that I haven’t written a guide for it, as I run Proxmox it was almost too easy to need one.
As you’re just starting out I’d recommend picking any Linux distro, putting the ISO on a USB drive and booting the server machine from it to install. Well, you know how to install an OS. Next, install Navidrome (guide) via the Linux or Docker guides, modify the config file to point to your music folder and change any setting you like, for example the port, and run it via systemctl or docker.
After that, login via browser with the given admin creds, make a user account for you and anyone else, install slskd for downloading and beets for correctly organising into the music directory, set up a reverse proxy to point to the Navidrome UI or connect via IP from any Subsonic client.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 1 month ago:
But browsers have a marker for dangerous sites - surely Cloudflare, Amazon or Google should have a report system and deliver warnings at the base
- Comment on Corvid-19 1 month ago:
#JustHowl’sMovingCastleThings
Seriously though, Howl is a very dateable crow - Comment on YSK : The Hagenah sunk a ship carrying Jewish refugees resulting 252 Jewish passenger death despite experts warning 1 month ago:
Better dead than Gentile, eh. Fuck Israel
- Comment on YSK about SearXNG - an open metasearch engine 1 month ago:
I wonder if routing it through FlareSolverr isn’t a solution.
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 1 month ago:
What do you use for 3-2-1? I try, so far I have my phone, backed up to a server HDD via SMB (Too poor for RAID-1 atm), and the very important stuff sent to a USB drive. Am I doing it right haha
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
'Member when all insane folk had to ramble to was the wall of their abode, perhaps a leashed parsnip? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Pepperidge Farm is alive today because of a discount Justin Timberlake.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 months ago:
Right? My one has developed a nasty case of defective WiFi/Bluetooth chip. I’m convinced it’s a superficial, intentional break.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 months ago:
Aside from being hella slow, I just don’t like that it can’t use the same directories as my network shares and requires uploading. This script might help but honestly I just stick to the basic shares because of this
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 months ago:
From my experience using a mailserver with no PTR and an ISP who likes to put their addresses on a PBL, it’s very good. Gmail tends to be the most annoying and wants that PBL listing removed or you’ll go to spam for new recipients, but other than that 10/10. I’d be interested to hear what your findings are if you do test it!
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 months ago:
Get yourself a Sonoff ZigBee bridge! Hue light support is practically native, and they act as extenders to reach your other ZigBee devices! Just don’t expect to be able to sync them with any movies or peripherals. I think there is a virtual Hue bridge on HACS and that might help with that, but idk
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 months ago:
Smooth sailing for me too, shockingly. I’ve recently added my 26th service to Proxmox - LibreELEC (Kodi), with the very complex matter of monitor passthrough. It’s such a versatile program and it has replaced my Chromecast with more features and side bonuses than I could’ve imagined. Another huge step towards degoogling.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 2 months ago:
Nice… I use ytdl-sub for downloading music, highly recommend it. Running it as a user whose primary group matches Jellyfin is a must if you want stuff saved next to the video files… The dev is also very active.
I just installed Ollama and use gemma3 to now. I wanted to use dolphin-mixtral but holy crap it wants more RAM than my entire setup
- Comment on Looking for a selfhostable chat service that people on phone and computers can log onto 2 months ago:
Snikket is great. I liked my choice of Prosody with Monocles and Gajim for server, Android and Windows/Linux, respectively
- Comment on Looking for a selfhostable chat service that people on phone and computers can log onto 2 months ago:
XMPP for my attempt just worked, voice and video calling too. The Android clients Monocles, Cheogram and Conversations are great, as for desktop they all look like 90’s messaging clients haha
I ultimately switched to Matrix because the encryption key sharing is much more friendly, at least for helping non-enthusiasts use it, and I didn’t realise I could decrypt old XMPP messages for new clients by transferring them manually, but at least Element Web is nice. It has flaws, definitely - on Android I find myself using Element Classic for creating unencrypted rooms and voice/video calling using my TURN server, and Element X for general messaging, caption and Markdown support. That’s another thing - for me the Element clients are the closest to being usable, the few others are borked.
In short XMPP is ugly but functional, and the client devs try their best, and Matrix is enticing but, as you said, finicky. Element is pretty but their new client that promises full e2ee for calling hasn’t reached a level I would consider out of Beta yet.
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 2 months ago:
Or the Truth Social theme to root out pedophiles
- Comment on Pansexuality 2 months ago:
Only the ones with holes big enough to fit my dick
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 2 months ago:
You know, I have purchased around 200 games. I have no idea how many of those can be mine because they’re linked to a store, maintained (usually) by a corporation hellbent on optimised profits, subject to mandatory updates so I have no choice but to play the way they want me to, and I don’t have the space to store them all. I don’t feel like any of them are really safe, not until they’re transferred to an offline machine.
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 2 months ago:
Ty. For what it’s worth I agree with Gemini; I believe it’s the existence of multiple ethically horrible events that cause someone to feel like this is the worst timeline. It was able to find and summarise all large-scale current events that have been reported internationally, and formulate it into a better response than I could’ve in under an hour. I would’ve missed something, or undervalued another thing.
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 2 months ago:
Seeking help isn’t contempt; providing some information is useful.
- Gemini
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 2 months ago:
AI Overview
People might have Googled “Worst timeline” from July to September 2025 due to a combination of severe and compounding global crises, including major humanitarian crises, a series of devastating natural disasters, significant geopolitical instability, and widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the internet and search engines.Humanitarian and Conflict Crises
- Gaza War Escalation: The humanitarian situation in Gaza reached catastrophic levels, with reports from the UN and aid agencies in July and September confirming widespread starvation and mounting evidence of famine, leading to significant global outrage and diplomatic shifts. A UN report in September went on to state that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
- Worsening Global Conflicts: The Sudanese civil war, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a gang war in Haiti, which saw gangs take control of over 90% of the capital, all continued or escalated during this period, causing immense suffering and instability. Mass Casualties in Pakistan and Iraq: A fire in an Iraqi hypermarket killed at least 61 people in July, and monsoons killed at least 63 in Punjab, Pakistan. A building collapse in Karachi later that month killed 27. Natural Disasters and Climate Events
- Extreme Weather Events: A deadly heatwave hit Europe in early July, and flash floods in Central Texas killed over 100 people. Severe monsoon rains and landslides also caused numerous deaths and widespread damage in India and South Korea throughout July and September.
- Devastating Earthquakes: In September, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan killed at least 2,200 people, with a second strong quake the following day interrupting rescue efforts. Geopolitical and Societal Instability
- Political Turmoil: Donald Trump’s administration faced numerous domestic and international challenges, including an unproven claim linking autism to a common pain killer, the indefinite suspension of air defense and weapon shipments to Ukraine, and a controversial increase in military presence and a subsequent military strike near Venezuela, which drew international condemnation.
- Global Diplomatic Shifts: Several Western countries, including Belgium, Australia, Britain, Canada, and Portugal, announced their support for Palestinian statehood, leading to strong reactions from Israel and heightened diplomatic tensions.
- Internet and Technology Frustrations: Many users found Google search results to be significantly worse in 2025, saturated with AI-generated content, aggressive ads, and clickbait, making it harder to find reliable information. Google also rolled out two significant, messy algorithm and spam updates during this time, frustrating website owners.
These interconnected events created a pervasive sense of global crisis and unpredictability, making the search query “Worst timeline” a likely expression of public sentiment.
- Comment on Looking for controller recommendations 2 months ago:
I don’t have any small form factor recommendations, but I can recommend - if you’re comfortable going AliBaba/AliExpress - the Ípega brand. It’s about £10, requires an app to configure, but extremely long-life battery and switchable modes. But the best controller for the rare few mobile games that support controller input natively is an Xbox One… one
- Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? 2 months ago:
This. Why pay £6/m when, with self-hosting a Samba/NFS/NextCloud instance as part of 20 other services, I pay ~£6 a year. (Might increase drastically with Ollama or SearXNG and a GPU, but still a fraction of the corporate cost)
